2 What is Counseling? What is Counseling? Guidance Counseling Psychotherapy “… counseling has proven to be a difficult concept to explain. The public’s lack of clarity is due, in part, to the proliferation of modern-day services that have adopted the label counselor. They range from credit counselors to investment counselors, and from camp counselors to retirement counselors. Although they share a common ingredient of verbal communication, they have little in common with … [psychological counseling]” (Hackney & Cormier, 2005, p. 2)

3 What is counseling?: What is counseling?: Guidance Counseling Psychotherapy “The process of guiding an individual”… Originally geared toward being a more directive, problem-solving, or rational approach to helping. End of 19 th century… from Greek words meaning “ caring of the soul ”… development of psychoanalysis and geared toward social and emotional issues. Falls somewhere between guidance

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